Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-05-26

begin at the top of the wall and rub
gently downward, going over the entire
wall in this way, and the paper will be
well cleaned and greatly improved. Be-
fore beginning operations use II bellows
to blow off the loose dust. If grease
spots appear put blotting paper over
them, and press with hot iatiron.
Another excellent way to clean wall
paper is to put about two quarts of
wheat bran in coarse flannel bag and
rub the wall with it as directed. Such
an application will make thepapcr look
almost like new.
HOW TO TAINT BUTTER.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker says: worked at place where
the milk was set in pans in one corner,
piled on the flour, one above the other.
The stove was at one side of the pans,
and at the other place was made for
old boots and shoes. One pair of rubber
boots were particularly offensive. They
were placed with the others at times,
and whenever this was done the odor
was plainly perceptible in the butter.
This was not pleasant experiment,
but it was remarkably forcible. There
are hundreds of kitchens where butter
is made under such circumstances.
A writer in the American Dairyman
gives his experiences: Afew weeks ago
we saw a large dairy farmer, whose
butter brings q price high above the
market, cartingout manure. The carts
went within sixty feet of the dairy, and
SO they were covered with hay caps, or
canvas covers, which enabled. them to
pass and make very little smell. A gem
tleman farmer has been furnishing a
fashionable district in this city with
really most excellent butter from his herd
of fancy cows, the demand for. the butter
was in excess of the supply and-'the
goose hung high" )" Suddenly the but
ter was way-way off. What could
the matter be? The grass fields near
the dairy had been manured and the
butter had taken the odor straight to
the tables of the city consumers. So
we live and learn, but experience is
rough teacher sometimes.
HEMP AND FLAX
The large amount of binder twine
used by sclf-binding harvesters has
raised the brice of hemp. and it is quite
likely that increased culture of both
hemp and flax will result. 1t is long
since Western New York grew much
flax. 1t is hard on land, and especially
SO under the old processes of rotting
the fibre in running streams where its
valuable manurial properties were
washed away. BY newly invented
processes large amount of fibre can be
got from the stalk and the remainder
which contains much gluten, can be
used for manure. The seed is valuable
for feeding after all its oil has been
extracted, ana when fed to any kind of
stock make rich manure. Flax and
hemp both require very rich soil, but
if the oil meal from the seed is fed at
home most of the fertility required in
growing the crop may be retained on
the farm. The making of twine re-
quires less labor than the manufacture
of finer fabrics, and it should seem that
this essential for securing our harvests
ought to be furnished at home.
HAND GARDEN PLow.
1t Will pay anyone having fourth
acre of garden to have a hand plow, as
by its use three-fourths of the hoeing
can be saved. have used different
kinds, and have not been without one
for twenty-five years, but have discard
ed all complicated arrangements Of
knives, harrows and cultivator teeth,
and now use but two tools on my plow,
and never but one at time. These
are small share or turning plow and
n little bull tongue not more than an
inch wide. / find it is easier and does
better work to go twice rapidly across
the garden than to try to work a wider
space and go once laboriously through.
The secret of good work in the gar
den is to cultivate at the right time,
which is just as soon after rain as the
land can be worked, and the or eat
value Of the hand plow is that it enables
one to do the work so quickly that it
can be done at the best time. can
break the crust on an acre of garden
with one of these implements in two
hours, but it would take two or three
men day with hoes to do it. When
one of these implements is to be used,
everything must be planted in rows the
length of the garden.
FOR THE FARMER.
Fowls will eat great deal of granu-
lated charcoal. As n preventive of dis
ease it is invaluable.
Insowing small seeds of feeble growth
for growing plants cover by sprinkling
earth on them with seive and then
press it down gently with the back of
hoe or shovel.
The old time yields of 800 or 400
bushels of potatoes per acre were most
ly grown on clover sod freshly plowed
down. Better not lose sight of SO good
practice.
Farmers who plowed their oats
ground last Fall now see their fields
covered with grain before their neigh
bors have sown kernel.
Plant no more corn than you can at
tend to in the best manner, and plow
no more ground than you can manure
well.
A geod way to teach hens the habit
Of egg-eating is to throw shells about
where they can get them. The best
way to cure them of the habit is to put
them under a pot lid.
Mr.. 7. B. Terry enumerates among
the advantages of leaving manure to
accumulate on the floor of stables under
horses that the animals have a COM
Portable, soft place to stand on. But q
soft place is just what is bad for hoofs,
and especially SO when there is ammonia
in it.